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Besant, Walter.
Captain Cook.
Publisher: Macmillan and Co., Limited, London;
Date of publication: 1904
£35.00
Octavo, pp. vi, 191. Full polished tan calf, with 5 raised bands and gilt titles to spine, and gilt decoration to compartments; gilt border to boards, board edges and turn-ins with gilt armorial of Municipal ...
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Stuart, Charles.
David Blythe, The Gypsy King: A Character Sketch.
Publisher: J. & J.H. Rutherford, Kelso;
Date of publication: 1883
£150.00
FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. [2] prospectus, 27, 7 catalogue. Original photograph of David Blythe aged 82, approx 9 cm x 6 cm, mounted to captioned leaf as frontispiece. Contemporary green cloth with printed red title ...
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Hill, Alexander.
Boilerman's Heid: A Biography of Trade Union Leader John Hill (1863- 1945).
Publisher: Privately printed, Ambleside;
Date of publication: 2000
£45.00
Reprint. Softcover quarto, pp. vi, 178. Limp cloth to spine and lower cover, with transparent front cover showing pictorial title page below. A littler annotation in pencil to title page, which is slightly toned; several ...
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[Anonymous].
The Biographical Magazine; Containing Portraits of Eminent and Ingenious Persons of Every Age and Nation ...
Publisher: Printed for Effingham Wilson and Sherwood, Neely & Jones, London;
Date of publication: 1819
£150.00
FIRST EDITIONS. Octavo, pp. [198] & 1[98], printed recto only, with engraved roundel portrait to each entry (192 in total, 96 per volume). Contemporary maroon half calf with gilt titles and ruling to spine, decoration in blind to compartments, and marbled boards. Spines toned and boards lightly scuffed, with minor wear to edges and spine tips. Bookplate of the William Waples Collection (Masonic Lodge) to each front paste-down, and bold ownership inscription to ffep Vol I only; scattered light foxing, and annotation to lower margin of the entry for Sir Ralph Abercrombie to Vol I, otherwise contents clean. A Very Good matching set.
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Rintelen, Captain [Franz] von.
The Return of the Dark Invader.
Publisher: Lovat Dickson & Thompson Limited, London;
Date of publication: 1935
£65.00
SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. xiii, [1], 266. Publishers’ scarlet cloth with gilt titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Upper corner of upper board very slightly bruised otherwise cover cloth clean and bright; endpapers ...
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Barea, Arturo.
Lorca: The Poet and His People.
Publisher: Faber and Faber, London;
Date of publication: 1944
£45.00
FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 103, [1], printed on heavy grey paper. Publishers’ bright orange cloth with gilt titles to spine in light orange dust-jacket with red and black titles. Spine tips lightly rubbed and lower ...
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Frankau, Pamela.
Jezebel.
Publisher: Rich & Cowan, London;
Date of publication: 1937
£85.00
FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 210, [2]. Publishers’ black cloth with gilt titles to spine an small dragon motif to upper board, in price-clipped purple dust-jacket. Spine tips a little creased; contents clean with no annotation ...
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Sparks, Jared.
The Life of George Washington.
Publisher: Alphons Durr, Leipzig;
Date of publication: 1859
£45.00
FIRST THUS. Published originally as the first volume in the 12 volume set “The Writings of Washington”, and here presented in an abridged form as a separate work. Octavo, pp. xii, 371, [1]. Brown half-calf ...
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Kirk, Rev. John.
The Mother of the Wesleys: A Biography.
Publisher: Jarrold & Sons, London;
Date of publication: 1866
£50.00
Fourth Edition. Octavo, pp. xxii, [2], 351, [9] catalogue. Portrait frontispiece of Mrs Wesley engraved by W.H.Gibbs. Publishers’ pebbled bottle-green cloth with bevelled boards, gilt titles and decoration to spine and double border ...
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Sisman, Adam.
John Le Carre: The Biography.
Publisher: Bloomsbury, London;
Date of publication: 2015
£110.00
SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. xx, 652. Numerous monochrome photographic images to plates. Publishers’ black cloth with gilt titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Very minor creasing to spine tips and an almost imperceptible ...
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Phillimore, Sir Robert
Laocoon Translated From the Text of Lessing
Publisher: Macmillan and Co, London;
Date of publication: 1874
£85.00
FIRST EDITION. Large octavo, pp. lxii, [2] List of Illustrations and errata, 360. Three mounted Woodbury type illustrations to plates including frontispiece portrait of Lessing, each with tissue guard. Publishers’ umber cloth with gilt titles ...
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Bestic, Alan.
The Girl Outside.
Publisher: Barrie and Rockliff, London;
Date of publication: 1959
£50.00
FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp 238. Publishers’ dark blue cloth with gilt titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Cover cloth unobtrusively stained top edge. Top edge of leaves faintly damp-stained and foxed, mainly up to ...
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